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For Immediate Release:	November 16, 1998
Contact: Alan Teramura, 956-7651

UH Continues Record-Setting Pace for Research Funding One-third of the way into the 1998­99 fiscal year, the University of Hawai'i appears headed for a record-setting performance in extramural funding. During its meeting Friday on Maui, the UH Board of Regents accepted more than $23 million in contracts, grants and awards for 117 research and training projects for October, bringing the year-to-date total for extramural funding to $61.8 million-a 28 percent increase over the first four months of 1997­98. The increase is reflected in both research activities (a record $36.2 million to date, up $7.8 million over this time last year) and training projects ($25.6 million to date, up $5.6 million over this time last year and the highest four-month tally since 1994­95.) Grants reported in November include: AGRICULTURE: $260,000 for papaya ringspot virus research, $278,000 for study of environmental effects of tephritid fruit fly control and/or eradication, $$224,000 for research on control of minor crop pests and $602,000 for "Pacific Basin Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural Research" from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Contact: Kenneth Rohrbach, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, 956-8157 HEALTH: $407,000 for evaluation of tailored skin cancer prevention strategies from the National Institutes of Health. Contact: Karen Glanz, Cancer Research Center of Hawai'i, 586-3076 EDUCATION: $595,000 for rehabilitation research and training centers from the U.S. Department of Education. Contact: Robert Stodden, University Affiliated Program, 956-9199 $30,000 for interactive teaching using Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Contact: Luke Paul Flynn, Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, 956-3154 SOCIAL CONCERNS: $4.4 million for rural economic transition assistance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Contact: Darryl Mleynek, Small Business Development Center, (Hilo) 974-7515

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